Thematic Bible
Thematic Bible
Boasting » What not to boast of
Do not boast yourself of tomorrow, for you do not know what a day may bring forth.
Come now, those saying, Today or tomorrow we will go into such a city and spend a year there, and we will trade and will make a profit, who do not know of the morrow. For what is your life? For it is a vapor, which appears for a little time, and then disappears. Instead of you saying, If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that. read more.
But now you boast in your presumptions. All such boasting is evil.
But now you boast in your presumptions. All such boasting is evil.
death » Preparation for
And if you call on the Father, who without respect of persons judges according to the work of each one, pass the time of your earthly residence in fear,
I must work the works of Him who sent Me, while it is day. Night comes when no man can work.
O Jehovah, make me to know my end, and the measure of my days, what it is; I know how frail I am.
In those days Hezekiah was sick to death. And the prophet Isaiah the son of Amoz came to him and said to him, So says Jehovah, Set your house in order, for you shall die and not live.
For whoever is chosen, to all those living, there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion.
For both if we live, we live to the Lord; and if we die, we die to the Lord. Therefore both if we live, and if we die, we are the Lord's.
For to me to live is Christ, and to die is gain.
For here we have no continuing city, but we seek one to come.
Look away from me, and I will smile before I go away and be no more.
So teach us to number our days, so that we may bring a heart of wisdom.
Whatever your hand finds to do, do it with all your might; for there is no work, nor plan, nor knowledge, nor wisdom, in the grave where you go.
Also the light is sweet, and a pleasant thing it is for the eyes to behold the sun; but if a man lives many years, and rejoices in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.
For the grave cannot praise You, death can not rejoice in You; they who go down into the pit cannot hope for Your truth. The living, the living, he shall praise You, as I do this day; the father shall make Your truth known to the sons.
Let your loins be girded about, and your lights burning. And you yourselves be like men who wait for their lord, whenever he shall return from the wedding, so that when he comes and knocks, they may open to him immediately. Blessed are those servants whom the lord will find watching when he comes. Truly I say to you that he shall gird himself and make them recline; and coming up he will serve them.
Instead of you saying, If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that.
Evil » What is evil
Come now, those saying, Today or tomorrow we will go into such a city and spend a year there, and we will trade and will make a profit, who do not know of the morrow. For what is your life? For it is a vapor, which appears for a little time, and then disappears. Instead of you saying, If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that. read more.
But now you boast in your presumptions. All such boasting is evil.
But now you boast in your presumptions. All such boasting is evil.
And Jehovah smelled a sweet odor. And Jehovah said in His heart, I will never again curse the ground for man's sake, because the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth. And I will not again smite every living thing as I have done.
For My people have committed two evils; they have forsaken Me, the Fountain of living waters, to hew out cisterns for themselves, broken cisterns that can hold no water.
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked; who can know it? I Jehovah search the heart, I try the reins, even to give to each man according to his ways, according to the fruit of his doings.
Also the weapons of the fool are evil; he thinks of wicked ways to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaks right.
And Jehovah saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
Verse Concepts
This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event to all. Yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.
There is an evil I have seen under the sun, like a sin which comes from a ruler's presence; foolishness is set in great dignity, and the rich sit in low place. I have seen servants on horses and princes walking as servants on the earth.
God » Will of, submission to » The rule of every-day life
And the world passes away, and the lust of it, but he who does the will of God abides forever.
Instead of you saying, If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that.
natural Life » Described as » Uncertain
Come now, those saying, Today or tomorrow we will go into such a city and spend a year there, and we will trade and will make a profit, who do not know of the morrow. For what is your life? For it is a vapor, which appears for a little time, and then disappears. Instead of you saying, If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that.
The Surrendered life » Submission to the divine will » The rule of every-day life
And the world passes away, and the lust of it, but he who does the will of God abides forever.
Instead of you saying, If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that.
Will » God's, submission to » The rule of every-day life
And the world passes away, and the lust of it, but he who does the will of God abides forever.
Instead of you saying, If the Lord wills, we shall live and do this or that.